In less than three years, with 100 performances and a cumulative audience of 75,000 people, the Shanghai Performing Arts World Resident Brand Performance, the one-legged play "Laughter of Shikumen", will usher in the 100th commemorative performance at SAIC Shanghai Culture Square on June 20.
Actors Mao Mengda and Shen Ronghai always maintain a sense of crisis: "I originally thought that I was satisfied to stick to the stage after retirement, but I didn't expect that "The Laughter of Shikumen" could be performed to 100 times. As local music practitioners in Shanghai, we have the responsibility to make the 'laughter of Shikumen' spread farther and longer. 100 games is the end of a journey and the beginning of a new journey. We are willing to think about and innovate the development of one-legged plays in the new era with the mentality of returning to zero, and be willing to be the 'laughingstock' of Shanghai culture. ”
"The Laughter of Shikumen" originated from the idea of "From Shikumen to Tiananmen", and is performed in the traditional double-stage form of one-legged play with Shikumen in Shanghai as the background. The work is wrapped in the core of a traditional one-legged play with the help of talk show packaging. The whole drama focuses on the people's food, clothing, housing and transportation to show Shanghai services, Shanghai manufacturing, Shanghai shopping and Shanghai culture.
Since its premiere in September 2018, this local music and art one-legged play produced by Shanghai Yidong Tianxia Culture Communication Co., Ltd. and deeply rooted in the big world of performing arts has maintained the characteristics of "often acting and constantly acting", not only adding news to each scene, but also commenting on hot spots with the "funny hot spots" created in real time, giving full play to the specialties of one-legged plays that are flexible and flexible, and the drawbacks of needles and needles.
"The Laughter of Shikumen" is inseparable from the care of the Propaganda Department of the Huangpu District Party Committee and the Huangpu District Cultural and Tourism Bureau, and also from the vigorous support of the "Big World of Performing Arts". After the first round of performances briefly tested the waters, "The Laughter of Shikumen" was deeply rooted in the Newly renovated Chinese Grand Theater for resident performances. In the past three years, the hot performance of "Laughter at Shikumen" has also leveraged the changes in the surrounding catering and even accommodation environment, making the original slightly depressed Niuzhuang Road flourish again. The example of a hot drama driving a party's night economy is also a useful exploration of the "Big World of Performing Arts" in the combination of culture and tourism. Mao Mengda and Shen Ronghai revealed that the next stage of performance will be transferred to another important theater of the "Big World of Performing Arts" - the Tiantou Yifu Stage.
"The audience ranged from eight or nine to eighty or ninety years old, with middle-aged and elderly people and young people accounting for half of them." In the view of Wu Xiaoming, deputy head of the Shanghai Major Literary and Art Creation Group, "The Laughter of Shikumen" is a successful case of converting works into products and then upgrading them into commodities, "This performance not only highlights the charm of the local cultural intangible cultural heritage one-legged play itself, but also shows the charm of Shanghai city." The one-legged actors use carefully created passages to show the reliable quality of Shanghai manufacturing, thoughtful Shanghai service, and fashionable and convenient Shanghai shopping that does not lose New York, Paris, and Tokyo. ”
"Laughter at Shikumen" moved the 100th commemorative performance to SAIC Shanghai Culture Square. Each performance of "The Laughter of Shikumen" has a hidden Easter egg, which is a special guest who invites a mysterious guest to count the origins of the Shanghai local music and art one-legged play, and performs a good performance on the spot. The 100th commemorative performance is scheduled to be performed by soprano Huang Ying with a solo singing of "I Love You, China" (tentative), voice actors Ding Jianhua and Song Huaiqiang reciting "From Shikumen to Tiananmen", and Peking Opera actor Fu Xiru will also bring wonderful singing segments. Three Shanghai masterpieces selected for the "Red Classic Repertoire Exhibition Season Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China" - Shanghai opera "Woman Picking Mountains", Yue opera "Deep Love of Mountains and Seas", and acrobatic drama "Battle Shanghai" will also perform wonderful clips in the 100th commemorative performance.
Hearing that "The Laughter of Shikumen" ushered in the 100th commemorative performance, more than ten long-established brands in Shanghai, such as Three Guns Group, Lao Fengxiang, Lao Dachang, Xinghualou, Shao Wansheng, Dafugui, Yuyuan Shares, etc., also came to help. Taking advantage of the 100th commemorative performance of "The Laughter of Shikumen", "Three Guns" will fully launch the activity of "Listening to Time and Finding the Three Guns".
Column Editor-in-Chief: Li Junna Text Editor: Li Junna Photo Editor: Xiang Jianying
Source: Author: Zhuge Yi